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Found: Canadian describes 'eerie' aftermath

Profiles of the missing

Wed., Jan. 20, 2010

CHARLES ROBITAILLE, MONTREAL

He came home in shorts and sneakers. It was -12C.

"The people from Red Cross were all over us" at the airport, wrapping returnees in parkas, Charles Robitaille said. The project manager, 59, had landed in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12 and was en route to a meeting when the quake hit. "We hadn't gone 100 yards when everything started shaking ... I thought somebody was pounding on the van."

Robitaille and his bodyguard wound up walking 10 kilometres into the capital.

"At night, it was eerie. You'd pass parks and hear praying and crying, but not see anyone."

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RICLAINE EDOUAZIN AND MARIE-MADELEINE WHALEN, MONTREAL

Riclaine Edouazin, 44, and daughter Marie-Madeleine Whalen, 8, had been in Haiti for a year when the quake struck. "They'd gone to build a house for my grandmother," said another daughter, 21.

Edouazin phoned home Tuesday to say they were still stranded, sleeping outside because of tremors and living on fruit growing there.

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